Ch' 14 Sec 2The Great Depression

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Ch. 14 Sec 2-The Great Depression

• Hardships Suffering

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• -During the Depression Americans did what they
  had to do to survive.
• -Depression brought hardship, homelessness and
  hunger to millions.

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Ch 14 Sec 2 Essential Questions

• How did people struggle to survive the Great
  Depression?
• How did the Depression affect men, women and
  children?
• What was the Dust Bowl?

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The Depression Devastates
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Hardships
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Suffering
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Depression In the Cities

• Lost Jobs
• Evicted from Homes
• People slept in parks and sewer pipes
• Hooverblanket

• Hooverville
• Soup kitchens
• Breadlines

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Hoovervilles
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Soup kitchens and Breadlines
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Hooverblankets
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African-Americans and Latinos

• Highest Unemployment
• Lowest paid
• Racial Violence
• Lynchings
• Deportations

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Depression in Rural Areas

• Falling Crop prices
• Rising debt
• 400,000 farm foreclosures
• Had to tenant farm

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The Dust Bowl

• Overproduction of land
• Unsuitable for farming
• Droughts
• Windstorms
• KS,CO,TX,NM,OK

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Farmer Exodus

• Farmers and Families pack up
• Head West on Route 66
• California
• Okies
• The Grapes of Wrath

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Family Life

• Emphasis on Family
• Stayed at home
• Played Board Games
• Monopoly ( 1933)
• Radio
• Neighborhood help

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Men in the Streets

• Men could not support their families
• Some even abandoned them
• 300,000 became Hoboes
• No Direct relief from the Fed. Gov, NYC 2.39 per
  Family

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Women Struggle

• Many Women canned food or sewed clothes to make
  money.
• Faced resentment that they had it easier than
  men.
• Many thought married women should not hold jobs
  with men out of work.
• Received less money than men.

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Children Suffer

• Poor Diets Malnutrition
• Rickets, other diseases
• 2,600 schools closed
• 300,000 out of school
• Hoover Tourists
• If I leave my mother, it will mean one less
  mouth to feed. Eugene Williams 13

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Social and Psychological Effects

• 1928-1932 Suicide rate rose by 30.
• 3x admittance to mental hospitals
• No doctors or dentists
• No college for young people
• No marriage, or children
• Distrust of banks and the market
• Habits of Savings and Thriftiness

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